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THE AUGUSTANA
Friday MIRROR Vol. XCV
December 1, 2006 No. 9
ESTABLISHED 1908 I SIOUX FALLS, S.D.
Gore chosen for Boe
Press photo
Former Vice President Al Gore will be the speaker at this year's Boe Forum.
By Karyn Schubert
Mirror Co-Editor
Former Vice President Al
Gore is an environmentalist, the
winner of the 2000 presidential
election popular vote and the
chosen speaker for the 11th an-nual
Boe Forum scheduled for
Jan. 23 at the Elmen Center.
"We did look at some others,
but Mr. Gore was everybody's
first choice said Art Huseboe,
executive director of the Center
for Western Studies. "Of all the
speakers we looked at, his topic
seemed the most current. He's
in the news. [His] topic is in the
news:'
The topic that Huseboe is re-ferring
to is the environment.
Since losing the 2000 presiden-tial
election, Gore has refocused
his time and energy to delivering
the truth of our "planetary emer-gency,"
according to the Harry
Walker Agency's Web site, the
agency that represents Gore and
other former heads of state.
Gore's book, An Inconvenient
Truth, outlines his concerns for
the environment and recently in-spired
a film by the same name,
which the Sundance Film Festival
hailed as "a gripping story" and
"a visually mesmerizing presen-tation:'
according to the Jan. 26
Washington Post.
Committee member and lo-gistics
coordinator for the Boe
Forum, Harry Thompson said
that Gore is the first Boe Forum
speaker to have a video as well as
a book outlining his topic.
He said the video will be
shown to get students interested
in attending Gore's speech and
hearing what he has to say.
"We're looking for ways that
the Boe Forum can be used to
engage students," he said. "That's
our real goal"
Sophomore Emily Schirmer
is the student representative of
the Boe Forum committee and
agrees that students should be
concerned with what Gore brings
to the Forum.
"The environment is soon go-ing
to be our generation's burden
and we need to know what we're
being handed and what we can
do about she said.
Athletes
support
D-II plan
By Thor Tripp
Mirror Ad Manager
Augustana College President
Rob Oliver's announcement on
Tuesday, Nov. 14 made it offi-cial:
the Vikings will remain in
NCAA Division II athletics.
A 28-person committee ap-pointed
by Oliver this past July
made the decision after months
of research.
"I only hope that this means
that Augie will dedicate itself to
becoming a premier D-II school
and national title contender,"
said junior Jake Ness.
Oliver holds a similar senti-ment.
In announcing that D-II
was the right fit for Augustana at
present, he also made the asser-tion
that Viking athletics would
not be content with mediocrity.
"We intend to pursue national
See DIVISION, page 12
House benefits future pastors Mikkelsen gears up for influx of books
By Katy Nelson
Mirror Guest Writer
Augustana is teaming up with
North American Baptist Semi-nary
(NABS) to offer courses to
educate students on the teachings
of Martin Luther, particularly
students interested in going into
the Lutheran clergy. This new
umbrella system is referred to as
Luther House of Study.
"Hopes are to add courses that
focus on Lutheran heritage at both
schools:" said Chris Croghan, Au-gustana
religion and philosophy
professor and director of Luther
House. Croghan will split his
time between Augustana and
NABS and teach specific courses
on the Lutheran denomination.
Luther House begins opera-tion
on Oct.17, 2007, and the new
curriculum will begin with a class
on Lutheran Confessions in the
upcoming spring semester. The
courses will be open to all stu-dents,
not only religion majors
and seminary students, so any
See LUTHER HOUSE, page 12
By Kristen Moen NABS and Augustana ad- With this agreement, the
Mirror Guest Writer ministrations about Augus- Mikkelsen Library not only
tana providing services for needs to provide a place for
Augustana's Mikkelsen the seminary as part of the seminary students to study,
Library must make room for relocation process began. but must also try to house
about 80,000 volumes from Augustana commit- the NABS library collection.
the North American Baptist teal to providing business The NABS library houses
Seminary (NABS) library and technology support to more than 80,000 books in
beginning March 2008. NABS. When the seminary its library, and the Mikkelsen
NABS, formerly located decided that it would relo- Library is not designed to
at 22nd Street and Grange cate adjacent to Augustana's hold that many additional
Avenue, sold its land to campus, a new contract was books.
Sioux Valley Hospital and developed that included the "By devoting resources
received a 10-year window to Mikkelsen Library providing to this planning process,
move to a different location. services to the seminary's
Conversations between the students. See LIBRARY, page 12
Awareness key in prevention of sexual assault
By Kaeti Hinck
Mirror Co-Editor
One fourth of women on col-lege
campuses will have experi-enced
rape or an attempted rape
by the time they graduate.
Of those women, only about
one in 10 will report the sexual
assault, said Ann Hoschler,
director of Student Health &
Counseling.
Nestled in the heart of Sioux
Falls, Augustana is not immune
to these startling statistics. In
the past five years, six forcible
sexual offenses and 12 non-forc-ible
offenses were reported on
campus.
"Nationwide, most sexual as-saults
are not reported, so it's real-ly
tough to determine what we've
actually had happen on campus:'
said Rick Tupper, senior direc-tor
of campus life. Tupper said
that non-forcible sexual offenses
could include statutory rape, in-cest
or even streaking.
"One of the reasons for un-der-
reporting on a campus is the
drinking, with freshmen partic-ularly"
because they tend to en-gage
in more high-risk drinking,
Hoschler said.
Hoschler also said that our
culture shames women rather
than encouraging them to re-port.
"If a guy walks down the
street, and he's got his shirt open,
we'll say, 'Whoa, hot stuff: Who
will say, Aha! He's asking to
be raped. Look at the way he's
dressed'?
"When the woman walks
down the street with her atomic
blouse on - which is 50 percent
fallout - we say, if something
happens to her, 'Well what did
you expect? Did you gee the way
she was dressed?'
"That's why we have so few
reports, because women think,
`It must be my fault. It must be
something that I did: The cul-ture
still puts that on women:'
See ASSAULT, page 11
Three reasons you
should read this issue:
1 It's all about the
Joneses.
Page 4
2 Economical Christmas
gifts for friends.
Page 5
3 Women's cross coun-try
races to 11th.
Page 8

THE AUGUSTANA
Friday MIRROR Vol. XCV
December 1, 2006 No. 9
ESTABLISHED 1908 I SIOUX FALLS, S.D.
Gore chosen for Boe
Press photo
Former Vice President Al Gore will be the speaker at this year's Boe Forum.
By Karyn Schubert
Mirror Co-Editor
Former Vice President Al
Gore is an environmentalist, the
winner of the 2000 presidential
election popular vote and the
chosen speaker for the 11th an-nual
Boe Forum scheduled for
Jan. 23 at the Elmen Center.
"We did look at some others,
but Mr. Gore was everybody's
first choice said Art Huseboe,
executive director of the Center
for Western Studies. "Of all the
speakers we looked at, his topic
seemed the most current. He's
in the news. [His] topic is in the
news:'
The topic that Huseboe is re-ferring
to is the environment.
Since losing the 2000 presiden-tial
election, Gore has refocused
his time and energy to delivering
the truth of our "planetary emer-gency,"
according to the Harry
Walker Agency's Web site, the
agency that represents Gore and
other former heads of state.
Gore's book, An Inconvenient
Truth, outlines his concerns for
the environment and recently in-spired
a film by the same name,
which the Sundance Film Festival
hailed as "a gripping story" and
"a visually mesmerizing presen-tation:'
according to the Jan. 26
Washington Post.
Committee member and lo-gistics
coordinator for the Boe
Forum, Harry Thompson said
that Gore is the first Boe Forum
speaker to have a video as well as
a book outlining his topic.
He said the video will be
shown to get students interested
in attending Gore's speech and
hearing what he has to say.
"We're looking for ways that
the Boe Forum can be used to
engage students," he said. "That's
our real goal"
Sophomore Emily Schirmer
is the student representative of
the Boe Forum committee and
agrees that students should be
concerned with what Gore brings
to the Forum.
"The environment is soon go-ing
to be our generation's burden
and we need to know what we're
being handed and what we can
do about she said.
Athletes
support
D-II plan
By Thor Tripp
Mirror Ad Manager
Augustana College President
Rob Oliver's announcement on
Tuesday, Nov. 14 made it offi-cial:
the Vikings will remain in
NCAA Division II athletics.
A 28-person committee ap-pointed
by Oliver this past July
made the decision after months
of research.
"I only hope that this means
that Augie will dedicate itself to
becoming a premier D-II school
and national title contender,"
said junior Jake Ness.
Oliver holds a similar senti-ment.
In announcing that D-II
was the right fit for Augustana at
present, he also made the asser-tion
that Viking athletics would
not be content with mediocrity.
"We intend to pursue national
See DIVISION, page 12
House benefits future pastors Mikkelsen gears up for influx of books
By Katy Nelson
Mirror Guest Writer
Augustana is teaming up with
North American Baptist Semi-nary
(NABS) to offer courses to
educate students on the teachings
of Martin Luther, particularly
students interested in going into
the Lutheran clergy. This new
umbrella system is referred to as
Luther House of Study.
"Hopes are to add courses that
focus on Lutheran heritage at both
schools:" said Chris Croghan, Au-gustana
religion and philosophy
professor and director of Luther
House. Croghan will split his
time between Augustana and
NABS and teach specific courses
on the Lutheran denomination.
Luther House begins opera-tion
on Oct.17, 2007, and the new
curriculum will begin with a class
on Lutheran Confessions in the
upcoming spring semester. The
courses will be open to all stu-dents,
not only religion majors
and seminary students, so any
See LUTHER HOUSE, page 12
By Kristen Moen NABS and Augustana ad- With this agreement, the
Mirror Guest Writer ministrations about Augus- Mikkelsen Library not only
tana providing services for needs to provide a place for
Augustana's Mikkelsen the seminary as part of the seminary students to study,
Library must make room for relocation process began. but must also try to house
about 80,000 volumes from Augustana commit- the NABS library collection.
the North American Baptist teal to providing business The NABS library houses
Seminary (NABS) library and technology support to more than 80,000 books in
beginning March 2008. NABS. When the seminary its library, and the Mikkelsen
NABS, formerly located decided that it would relo- Library is not designed to
at 22nd Street and Grange cate adjacent to Augustana's hold that many additional
Avenue, sold its land to campus, a new contract was books.
Sioux Valley Hospital and developed that included the "By devoting resources
received a 10-year window to Mikkelsen Library providing to this planning process,
move to a different location. services to the seminary's
Conversations between the students. See LIBRARY, page 12
Awareness key in prevention of sexual assault
By Kaeti Hinck
Mirror Co-Editor
One fourth of women on col-lege
campuses will have experi-enced
rape or an attempted rape
by the time they graduate.
Of those women, only about
one in 10 will report the sexual
assault, said Ann Hoschler,
director of Student Health &
Counseling.
Nestled in the heart of Sioux
Falls, Augustana is not immune
to these startling statistics. In
the past five years, six forcible
sexual offenses and 12 non-forc-ible
offenses were reported on
campus.
"Nationwide, most sexual as-saults
are not reported, so it's real-ly
tough to determine what we've
actually had happen on campus:'
said Rick Tupper, senior direc-tor
of campus life. Tupper said
that non-forcible sexual offenses
could include statutory rape, in-cest
or even streaking.
"One of the reasons for un-der-
reporting on a campus is the
drinking, with freshmen partic-ularly"
because they tend to en-gage
in more high-risk drinking,
Hoschler said.
Hoschler also said that our
culture shames women rather
than encouraging them to re-port.
"If a guy walks down the
street, and he's got his shirt open,
we'll say, 'Whoa, hot stuff: Who
will say, Aha! He's asking to
be raped. Look at the way he's
dressed'?
"When the woman walks
down the street with her atomic
blouse on - which is 50 percent
fallout - we say, if something
happens to her, 'Well what did
you expect? Did you gee the way
she was dressed?'
"That's why we have so few
reports, because women think,
`It must be my fault. It must be
something that I did: The cul-ture
still puts that on women:'
See ASSAULT, page 11
Three reasons you
should read this issue:
1 It's all about the
Joneses.
Page 4
2 Economical Christmas
gifts for friends.
Page 5
3 Women's cross coun-try
races to 11th.
Page 8